Noun
The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.
A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.
Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. Susan Sontag
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. Ronald David Laing
The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation. Che Guevara
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. Roland Barthes
Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself. Nikolai Berdyaev
The degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others. Erving Goffman